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Tobie Barton

Mailing Address:

43 Foundry AvenueWaltham, Massachusetts 02453-8313

Tobie Barton is committed to improving the health and wellness of children and their families, and has a passion for helping organizations build their capacity to improve child health outcomes using evidence-based tools. She has extensive experience in public health, maternal and child health, and early childhood health and safety and is skilled in managing state-level public health programs, developing curricula, and planning and implementing training and technical assistance programs.

Previously, Barton was a project manager for the Mountain Plains Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Practice and Implementation Center and National Rural and Frontier Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She has also served as manager of the STD and HIV Prevention Programs for the state of Idaho, worked as a Quality Assurance Specialist for the Idaho Immunization Program, and was Curriculum Developer for the National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants.

Barton has served on the Advisory Council for the Seattle HIV/STD Prevention Training Center, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Advisory Committee for Healthy Futures: Improving Health Outcomes for Young Children, and is a current member of the Committee on the Status of Women at the University of Nevada, Reno.

She received a BA in Political Science from Swarthmore College, an MA in Social Sciences-Health and Culture from the University of Amsterdam while on a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands, and a certificate in Maternal and Child Health Public Health Leadership from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.